Show ai london THE OPENING ADDRESS ms williard makes a stirring appeal kiel aanal opened special to LONDON june 19 rho proceedings of the convention of the temperance association were d lait night at queens hall with a musical meeting in which tit great feature was a abet choir of white rib bonera numbering this morn ing alie gathering of the eerier the third biennial of the worlds temperance union convened at queens hal in the of an immense throne of visitors many 0 whom had journea ed thousands of miles to witness or in the proceed inRa mis frances E willard of chicago who ia president of th worlds organization presided over the gatherine in her operine sh spoke in part as follows andr the knowledge in these later days it is folly for temper ance people to ignore the mighty power of poverty to induce evil habits of every kind it was only our ignorance of the condition of the industrial classes that magnified a single propaganda and minimized minimised sed every other that led the ta marance people in earlier daya to believe that if men and woman were temperate all other material pool would follow in the train of thia piear grace WB know now that the rapid progress of invention is constantly diminishing the cumber of workman required in the different lines of know that within a few coara a machine baa been sets type without the intervention of th human hand so that one maa can do aa much with this machine as five could accomplish in the saine time without it we know thai electricity has begun to play its part as mank proxy in the world of force toe bt pam laundry con the luena ot faiq aag har livelihood the steam plough thresher roller and f cores of other contrivances are replacing the silona force of the human hand by the oyolo yan y an power of the un bastio arcs of and iron backed by na turea mast powerful agencies har desaad by mana skill there are millions of men and women in great brit ain and america who would gladly work but the pitiless restraining hand of invention and monopoly holds them back BO that an opportunity to earn their bread by the sweat of their brow id already foucht for as ea man in other times fought for their lives under this preB pure of relentless competition men are ground into dast and that bv a heavier heel than old time tyrannizes tyrannies tyr annies could boast and they seek in those hallucinations deteriorate body and they drink and debauch on the one hand to forget ani on tho other to crowd into their brief apace of recreation the utmost amount of Benea tion and delirium I 1 know that this statement will be cont averted by the that alcoholic disease the opium craze and other forms ot indulgence are not confined to the poor but the rich form but a small class and it is ad gilted milted that the drink habit and allied vices are dying out among tho well to do cla aes nothing of willful ignorance cin account for blinking the fact that poverty is perhaps the chief cause of the drinking babit throughout the english speaking world in view of these facts it ia more than shortsighted short sighted folly it is unpardonable stubbornness not to aay criminal apathy in ua as temperance it we do not clasp bands of aud f with the wage worker and the unemployed we he able to see that be hours law is a temperance rance measure a purity measure a gospel measure and nothing leaa for by means of the eight hour law one third more men and bomin now unemployed can find and the adeana of fight for a free life aud a well ordered borne the living aage means not only that the wags earner ceball live but he shall liya well three sessions were held today a continuous session the ers numbering nearly one hundred tomorrow night the grand celebration at albert hall will take place opening of the kid canal 1 agedal to TUB ENQUIRER 1 june 19 the festivities incident to to the opening of the grea kiel canal inaugurated this afternoon at six the emperor and the representatives of all the countries oi europe wil ba banqueted by the free city of hamburg at the city hall the expense of t h i a function alone which is but the precursor of three daya of jubilation vi ill be 00 over one thousand avara will be laid and the aasem blase will include emperor willian II 11 of germany and over a acore of ger man kings and princa the repress nta lives of foreign royalties the duke of york representing qeeen victoria and the members of the senate at tho conclusion conc lueion of the dinner the party will repair to an artificial inland in th eAIster babin they will ba welcomed by and girls the imperial tent has been erected in the center of the island and in the open space before it there will be fireworks an i a krand illumination the imperial has been anchored off the city for the accommodation of the emperor and empress and their four widest bays ovar night to he great naval display will and will DP participated in by the navies of avei civil iced country it will be the greatest ya hering of modern ships of war that has ever taken piece the completion of the canal is the great oat event that has occurred in the engineering gi world pince the operine of the duez canal in its construction baa occupied eiba years and involved on expenditure of the canal across the base of the dan lib peninsula and enables to avoid the perilous between jutland and the scandinavian aula it ii expected thac feliy merchant ships will paea through the canal yearly besides the gain in safety thare will be a gain in distance of miles betwee en the baltic ani points south of hull while bremen ships will gadt miles ad hamburg ships miles the canal ie 61 mile in length has two locks cne at each end has an average width of feet and depth of 30 feet the two locks are the largest in the world with the exception of that at Bermer haven each baing feet in leneth |